The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26
Ex.cAB,NeT OFFICERS.
Where Some OF Them Are Living and what
Tt,ev Ara fpotug.

where Some OF Them Are Living and what
They Are Doing.
Mannng's retirement adds another
to the number OF ex-Cabinet officers
who are now living. McCulloch, Lin
coins Secretary of the Treasury, after
going to London and making fortune
as u banker there, came back to Amer
lea and served as Arthur's secretary
during the last days of his administra-
ton. He now lives near Washington
City. George S. Boutwell,, one of Grants
Secretaries of the Treasury, is practi-
cling law here. and you may see his
dark, scholarly face and his lean, bent
over form almost any day on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Benjamin Bristow, an
other of Grants Secretaries of the
Treasury, has law Office in New York,
| and William A. Richardson still has Il
position upon the judiciary. Philip +.
Thomas, who served under Buchanan,
is still living, think, in Maryland.
John Sherman, who acted under Hayes,
is in the Senate, and Gresham is one of
the United States District Judges.
The oldest cx-Cabnet officer now
living is George Bancroft, who was
President Folks Secretary of the Navy
forty-two years ago. Next to him comes
jeff Davis, who served under Frank
Pierce as Secretary of War, and then
Juge Holt and Horatio King, who were
Secretary of War and Postmaster Cen
eral under Buchanan. Judge Holt and
Horatio King both live in Washington.
Holt does not talk very much about the
past, but King is an accomplished lit
terateur, and devotes large part of
his time writing articles for historical
magazines. His frame is as strong as
that of Bancroft, only triie fatter,
and his mind is as clear as bell. Jacob
Thompson, who was u member of the
same Cabinet with him, died only u
few years ago, leaving, so easy Young
tells me, n fortune of about $1,000, 900.
Two old men who were in Lincoln 8
Cabinet still live. One is Hannibal
Hamlin, who acted as his Vice Presi-
dent. and who is very happy among his
books and trout streams in Maine, and
the other Simon Cameron. Scofield,
who was at the time Secretary of War,
still lives; Harlan, one of Johnson's
Secretaries of the Interior, is u Judge
in this city, and Evarts, who was one
of his Attorney Generals, is in the
United States Senate; Elihu Washburne,
Grants Secretary of State, lives in Chi.
cago, and is writing series of arti.
cles on the siege of Paris. l saw him
year ago, and he was then the per-
soniication of good health. Hamilton
Fish, another of Grants Secretaries, is
living in New York; and every one
knows of Blaine's existence at Augusta,
Me. Ex-Secretary of War Belknap ha:
grown fat as Washington lawyer, ant
ex-Secretary of the Navy Robesor
weighs two hundred pounds, and has ;
home Mt Washington which ought to bt
worth at least $4,000. Jacob d. Cox
who was one of Grants Secretaries o
the Interior, is practicipg law at Gin
cinnati and another, in the person o
Columbus Delano, raises fine wool sheel
in the central part of Ohio. Tyner, hi
Postmaster-General, practices law here
and Judge Taft, his Secretary of War
has come back from his diplomatic pos
abroad, and is living with his family n
Cincinnati. Chandler, Arthur's Secre
tary of the Navy, spends the most of hi
time at Washington. Lincoln, his Sec
retary of War, is practicing law il
Chicago. and Frank Hatton. who sue
ceeded Gresham as Postmaster-General
is editor of the Chicago Mail. Benjamin
Brewster has taken his old white ha
and ruffled shirts back to his law prac
tice in Philadelphia, and Teller is agail
in the United States Senate. The eX
Cabinet Ministers are not troubled, a
far as l can see, with finding somethin.
to do after they leave office, and the bal
which is put upon President does no
extend to them. A Cabinet Ministe
may be farmer, merchant, a lawye
or Il lobbyist, at the close of his term
and there are few of them who do no
make enough to keep themselves ant
their families Washington Cor. Cleve
land Leader.